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Hammer, one of Britain’s most successful and prolific film companies, found
its niche in the 1950s with the horror genre — adult-orientated films
featuring bloodthirsty vampires and werewolves, killer creatures from space
and rampaging dinosaurs. Peaking during the 1960s, the studio closed its
doors at the end of the 1970s as tastes changed and Hammer’s lurid Gothic
melodramas could no longer find an audience.

Thirty years on, the studio has risen once again and is establishing itself as
a formidable brand, having been purchased by a consortium several years ago.
The first new Hammer horror film, Let Me In, is released